Re: [Re: [expert] Solved! - was: Refuses to install... :-(]]

2000-04-10 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
E T wrote: Is it absolutely sure in this case, that the CDROM supports _UDMA_ ??? (It may only support _DMA_ which is not the same thing). This is what BIOS used to say when booting... Okay, but it would be better to check the CD-ROM documentation (the BIOS auto-probe could be

Re: [expert] Wine Is Not an Emulator

2000-04-10 Thread Michael Holt
I concede - rather, I give up - who really cares? Russ Johnson wrote: Play on words or not, that's what the Wine team says it stands for. To emulate, aren't you faking it? If they don't fake it, but actually have the APIs, then it's not emulation, it's real. Hence, not emulation. If it

Re: [expert] J Serve or Jakarta

2000-04-10 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Pjsorry, I didn't mean anything was illegitimate or not above board. It was just a comment about system administrators that don't even know the correct designation for the version of the operating system they're using. After all, attention to details is everything. Alan Pj wrote:

Re: [expert] lilo problem with 7.0 air

2000-04-10 Thread Larry Sword
Tom Berkley wrote: Larry Suspect a lilo.conf line length limitation. Try using the \ character at the end of a line and continue the append command on the following line. Make absolute certain that no spaces follow the \ character or is will not escape the newline character. Tom Sorry

Re: [expert] Office Suite for Linux

2000-04-10 Thread Tom Berkley
Michael Holt wrote: AARGH! That's simply a play on words You stated the fact yourself - the program that's NORMALLY executed on a WINDOWS platform is allowed now to run on a LINUX platform. You EMULATE the Windows enviroment so that you can run that program in a Linux enviroment.

Re: [expert] Wine Is Not an Emulator

2000-04-10 Thread Tom Berkley
Exactly. If you add a what is essentially a new library, would you call that an emulator. No, its just a library of api functionality. Would you call a c, or c++, or fortran compiler an emulator. Tom Russ Johnson wrote: Play on words or not, that's what the Wine team says it stands for.

Re: [expert] Office Suite for Linux

2000-04-10 Thread Alan Shoemaker
MichaelJohn's not blasting you! He's telling you that your dictionary is incorrect. He's telling you that the folks who originated and named and programmed WINE called it WINE for a certain reason and what that reason is. That's all. Alan Michael Holt wrote: I'm not quite sure why

Re: [expert] J Serve or Jakarta

2000-04-10 Thread Pj
Alan, I think the most important event concerning this issue is Jean-Michel said he would take the time to fix it. One of the best things about this list is the willingness of the users to talk to each other and thrash out the problems so the software developers can make changes. As far as the

[expert] --set-selecion under MDK?

2000-04-10 Thread Deim goston
Hi ! Does the $SUBJECT or something similar available under Mandrake ? I wouldn't like to manually choose the packages every time I'm installing a box by my style. So, is it available to give the pckages names to the rpm to install packages that I like and uninstall what's unneccecary for me

Re: [expert] No Mouse Pointer in XFree86 Version 4

2000-04-10 Thread Dennis Robertson
Dennis Robertson wrote: Hello List, I am running L-M7.0 and have just installed XFree86 version4. All went well except for the mouse pointer. The mouse is an M$ serial IntelliMouse at com1. The first few times I started up I couldn't see the mouse pointer at all but if I clicked the

Re: [expert] Office Suite for Linux

2000-04-10 Thread Ron Stodden
Michael Holt wrote: AARGH! That's simply a play on words You stated the fact yourself - the program that's NORMALLY executed on a WINDOWS platform is allowed now to run on a LINUX platform. You EMULATE the Windows enviroment so that you can run that program in a Linux enviroment.

Re: [expert] Wine Is Not an Emulator

2000-04-10 Thread Stephen F. Bosch
Michael Holt wrote: I concede - rather, I give up - who really cares? You're not a technician, are you? Terminology matters. If it's not consistent, people make mistakes and things go boom (just ask the Jet Propulsion Laboratory). I understand the distinction between emulator and API.

[expert] Ethernet

2000-04-10 Thread Deim goston
Hi ! Several minutes after boot I got the message: eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00 status \ e000. What does it mean? This machine still independent from the LAN but has a NIC (3com Vortex or Boomerang) Thanks, Ago "If you love somebody set them free..." Sting is GPL fan :-)) A

Re: [expert] The ongoing tradition of weird wacky Ver 7.0-2 problems continues

2000-04-10 Thread Lane Lester
Brian T. Schellenberger said: Is the zip drive 0,0 or 0,1? 0,0 Have you tried cdrecord -scanbus I did, but all I remember was that it didn't lead to a solution at the time. I'm not booted with ide-scsi right now, because it screws up other things (fstab stuff) that I don't want to

RE: [expert] Can't Break X Autostart

2000-04-10 Thread Lane Lester
Russ Johnson said: /etc/inittab is the file that controls how init works. You can override inittab by specifying a parameter at the lilo prompt. So, that being the case, let's see what's in the /etc/lilo.conf file. All of it. You got it! boot = /dev/hda timeout = 200 prompt vga =

Re: [expert] Can't Break X Autostart

2000-04-10 Thread Lane Lester
Brian T. Schellenberger said: Yes, but what rc.5 has is irrelevent; the question is: "why are we using rc.5 in the *first* place? -- what's putting us into run-level 5?" Do you have an init in the rc.local at all? (Possibly linked in for run-level 3.) I suspect not, and that 'init'

RE: [expert] Can't Break X Autostart

2000-04-10 Thread Brian T. Schellenberger
Actually, we've *already* solved his problem in a practical sense. He's got his system operating as he wants it. He's just indulging us in trying to solve the mystery of why it was acting oddly in the first place, and a re-install won't accomplish *that*! Also, w/r/t to your previous comment

Re: [expert] Office Suite for Linux

2000-04-10 Thread Brian T. Schellenberger
But it's not an emulator. It's a compatibility library. That is, in has the Windows API but it doesn't actually emulate the hardware or processor or anything like that, which is what is so darned slow on emulators. (To see the effect, use vmware; if using a compute-bound application it's

RE: [expert] J Serve or Jakarta

2000-04-10 Thread Russell \Elik\ Rademacher
Hello Jean-Michel. Thanks. It is very helpful for you to help solve it. Also...it explains why you haven't responded to my direct emails in the past. So I forgive you on that. :) I be looking forward to seeing the results for this. If you actually make it work, then I guess I have

Re: [expert] Office Suite for Linux

2000-04-10 Thread Brian T. Schellenberger
I don't think so. I've been in the computer field professionally for 19 years, and I have never heard this distinction raised. Perhaps it's made in Electrical Engineering circles, but in computer science and the general population, the distinction seems to be that an emlator emulates hardware,

Re: [expert] The ongoing tradition of weird wacky Ver 7.0-2 problems continues

2000-04-10 Thread Brian T. Schellenberger
Well, of course, the zip drive *should* be 0,1 and the CD-RW *should* be 0,0, given that the zip drives on hdd and the CD-RW on hdc (unless, perhaps, you specified both of them on the lilo.conf in reverse order, but I'm sure you didn't do that). However, I'm afraid we've reached the limits of

Re: [expert] Office Suite for Linux

2000-04-10 Thread Charles Curley
On Sun, Apr 09, 2000 at 11:22:02PM +0200, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: - On Sun, Apr 09, 2000 at 14:57 -0500, Pj wrote: - Sheldon - - I just read something on one of the securtiy sites that a virus can - cause files to *grow.* Unfotunately I forgot where I saw the info or the - name/type of the

Re: [expert] Office Suite for Linux

2000-04-10 Thread Charles Curley
On Sun, Apr 09, 2000 at 09:12:16PM -0700, Michael Holt wrote: - AARGH! That's simply a play on words You stated the fact yourself - - the program that's NORMALLY executed on a WINDOWS platform is allowed - now to run on a LINUX platform. You EMULATE the Windows enviroment so - that you can

Re: [expert] Office Suite for Linux

2000-04-10 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, you wrote: AARGH! That's simply a play on words You stated the fact yourself - the program that's NORMALLY executed on a WINDOWS platform is allowed now to run on a LINUX platform. You EMULATE the Windows enviroment so that you can run that program in a Linux

Re: [expert] kppp prevents other X apps from opening

2000-04-10 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 09 Apr 2000, you wrote: It's a feature, not a critical function. If you use an application that relies on reverse DNS lookups (some IP applications do), then the reverse lookup will fail if your hostname doesn't match the real FQDN. If you have a dialup connection to the internet that

Re: [expert] Office Suite for Linux

2000-04-10 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, you wrote: I'm not quite sure why you want to blast me for simple semantics, but whatever name you want to give it, it still performs the same function. I don't believe it's semantics. I believe there is a distinct difference between an emulator and an API. John

Re: [expert] Wine Is Not an Emulator

2000-04-10 Thread Vic
Well is it an adaptor or an emulator? On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, Tom Berkley mewed: Exactly. If you add a what is essentially a new library, would you call that an emulator. No, its just a library of api functionality. Would you call a c, or c++, or fortran compiler an emulator. Tom Russ

Re: [expert] Ethernet

2000-04-10 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, you wrote: Hi ! Several minutes after boot I got the message: eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00 status \ e000. What does it mean? This machine still independent from the LAN but has a NIC (3com Vortex or Boomerang) It means that it's trying to talk to a

Re: [expert] J Serve or Jakarta

2000-04-10 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Pjall true :-) Alan Pj wrote: Alan, I think the most important event concerning this issue is Jean-Michel said he would take the time to fix it. One of the best things about this list is the willingness of the users to talk to each other and thrash out the problems so the software

Re: [expert] Office Suite for Linux

2000-04-10 Thread Deryk Barker
Thus spake Michael Holt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I believe it's just semantics (IMHO). Given that the word "semantics" relates to *meaning* I fail to see how anything can be "just" semantics. (Sorry, this is one of my pet peeves) -- |Deryk Barker, Computer Science Dept. | Music does not have to

[expert] Several Problems

2000-04-10 Thread Icebreaker
Ok, I'm currently having several problems with my Linux box Here is what I'm running: Release: Mandrake-Linux 6.5 Kernel: 2.2.13-7mdk Machine: Pentium II 400 MMX (need any other info?) 1) Video Card: Sis 6326 a)I can only use 800x600 which is fine, but I get drawing

[expert] Netscape from KDE

2000-04-10 Thread Brian T. Schellenberger
I have a very simple "browse" command, like this: #! /bin/csh -f cd /home/bts/xfer /usr/bin/netscape $* If I type it in in a shell, it works fine. If I type it in the pop-up KDE command window, it works fine. But from my panel, it doesn't work fine. Under execute I

Re: [expert] Wine Is Not an Emulator

2000-04-10 Thread Pj
Let's see if I got this right: Wine is neither an adapter or emulator, but instead uses API's to allow Windows programs to run on Linux. I think it's a great idea, but I have one question. Will Windows software be just as unpredictable and crash-prone when run under Linux? Pj

[expert] failed to stat /net

2000-04-10 Thread Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SWS
What is this telling me [root@Mrroboto brian]# rpm -Uvh ghostscript-hp8xx-5.50-5.i386.rpm --force failed to stat /net: Input/output error Brian D. Klar - CVE OTS WPAFB (937)257-5773 937-973-3125 (Pager)

[expert] LILO IDE CD-Writer

2000-04-10 Thread Lane Lester
Brian T. Schellenberger said: Well, of course, the zip drive *should* be 0,1 and the CD-RW *should* be 0,0, given that the zip drives on hdd and the CD-RW on hdc (unless, perhaps, you specified both of them on the lilo.conf in reverse order, but I'm sure you didn't do that). Actually, I

Re: [expert] Wine Is Not an Emulator

2000-04-10 Thread Mage Grimau
Not as badly. A lot of Windows apps crash when they call system services, not from their own bugs. --- Pj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Let's see if I got this right: Wine is neither an adapter or emulator, but instead uses API's to allow Windows programs to run on Linux. I think it's a great

Re: [expert] Office Suite for Linux

2000-04-10 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, Apr 10, 2000 at 09:04:26AM -0400, John Aldrich wrote: - On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, you wrote: - I'm not quite sure why you want to blast me for simple semantics, but - whatever name you want to give it, it still performs the same function. - - I don't believe it's semantics. I believe there

RE: [expert] Wine Is Not an Emulator

2000-04-10 Thread Steven Smith
Strangely enough, Pj, depending on the amount of ram and CPU speed. It may run better. The main problem with Windows based apps is usually resources. So, you could have a Windows app that runs more reliably under Linux via WINE etc, than under Windows. -Original Message- From: Pj

Re: [expert] Several Problems

2000-04-10 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, you wrote: Ok, I'm currently having several problems with my Linux box Here is what I'm running: Release: Mandrake-Linux 6.5 Kernel: 2.2.13-7mdk Machine: Pentium II 400 MMX (need any other info?) 1) Video Card: Sis 6326 Upgrade to the X server in Mandrake 7.

Re: [expert] Wine Is Not an Emulator

2000-04-10 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, you wrote: Let's see if I got this right: Wine is neither an adapter or emulator, but instead uses API's to allow Windows programs to run on Linux. I think it's a great idea, but I have one question. Will Windows software be just as unpredictable and crash-prone when

Re: [expert] Wine Is Not an Emulator

2000-04-10 Thread Bug Hunter
In brief, yes. However, it won't take the OS (Linux) with it, in most cases. Today, many crashes in windows forces a reboot. Not so under wine. On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, Pj wrote: Let's see if I got this right: Wine is neither an adapter or emulator, but instead uses API's to allow Windows

Re: [expert] LILO IDE CD-Writer

2000-04-10 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, you wrote: Actually, I included =only= the cd-writer (hdc) in lilo.conf. That's just one of the strange things about the unspecified zip (hdd) being "captured" by the ide-scsi thing. Probably because the Zip will work with SCSI emulation just as well as the CDR. You

[expert] Upgrade to 7.0 problems

2000-04-10 Thread Daniel Knapp
Hello all, I have just upgraded from Mandrake 6.1 to 7.0, and almost everything still works (some things better than before). Unfortunately, when I try to run acrobat reader, or corel wordperfect I get the following error message: can't load library 'libXt.so.6' I don't get this message when

Re: [expert] Several Problems

2000-04-10 Thread John Connell
I am using both a Phoebe Microsytems external with the TI chipset and a USR 5686-03 external fax modem both work well with Linux (and BeOS). John Icebreaker, I can only repeat what has been said about modems. Winmodems don't work in Linux too good. Yes, a win-linux-modem is being

Re: [expert] Wine Is Not an Emulator

2000-04-10 Thread Brian T. Schellenberger
Of course, but at least it won't take the entire machine with it. Pj wrote: Let's see if I got this right: Wine is neither an adapter or emulator, but instead uses API's to allow Windows programs to run on Linux. I think it's a great idea, but I have one question. Will Windows software

Re: [expert] Wine Is Not an Emulator

2000-04-10 Thread Bill Beauchemin
Who cares if WINE is an emulator or not. I run Linux to get away from those crappy Winblows apps that MicroSnot shoves at ya with all there bugs. Why would I want to go backwards. Bill Beauchemin Sunnyvale MDC Control Center GlobalCenter (a Global Crossing company) 888-541-9888

[expert] What is going on with BUG tracking??

2000-04-10 Thread Alen Salamun
Hi! I have submited over a dozen of bugs, THAT ARE NOT IN BUG ARCHIVE YET and got no replay, and bugs are not added! What is going on on this field?? Bye, Alen -- *---* *E-Mail: Alen Salamun [EMAIL PROTECTED]* * LiNUX - The choice

[expert] Where are all the FIXES for XXXX BUGS????

2000-04-10 Thread Alen Salamun
Hi! I have never seen a single "Update" for some critical bugs like: - g++ won't compile (includes not found) - kernel won't compile if make mrproper not issued before - uucp has wrong privileges on /var/log... - fetchmail is missing rmail - kpilot DOESN'T WORK AT ALL! (Jpilot works OK) ... So

Re: [expert] LILO IDE CD-Writer

2000-04-10 Thread Larry Sword
Lane Lester wrote: Brian T. Schellenberger said: Well, of course, the zip drive *should* be 0,1 and the CD-RW *should* be 0,0, given that the zip drives on hdd and the CD-RW on hdc (unless, perhaps, you specified both of them on the lilo.conf in reverse order, but I'm sure you

[expert] two questions...

2000-04-10 Thread Joe Heafner
Hello. 1) I can't seem to enable desktop sounds in an Enlightenment (Gnome) session. I try to enable the sounds, but I get an error message about not being able to communicate with the esound daemon. 2) In my .xsession-errors file, I see lots of lines about an maudio file that can't be opened.

Re: [expert] Several Problems

2000-04-10 Thread Glyn Millington
Hm. Try the latest kernel on the Cooker. It contains the module you need for this (well I have a CMI8738 - and it works.) Kernel 2.2.15-0.18mdk Instructions for installing a new kernel are available on Mandrake User org. HTH Glyn M. On Mon, Apr 10, 2000 at 12:32:05PM -0400, thus spake

Re: [expert] Where are all the FIXES for XXXX BUGS????

2000-04-10 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, you wrote: So what is the policy of updates by MANDRAKE? Hey I REALLY like this distribution and started recomending it all over, but this is not the right way Which version of Mandrake do you have? They do not appear to put out updates for older versions (i.e.

Re: [expert] Several Problems

2000-04-10 Thread Icebreaker
Next thing is, is there a site or something where I can order this? The local computer dealer adds heafty charges on ordering, let alone his personal markup -Original Message- From: John Connell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Monday, April 10, 2000 4:29

RE: [expert] Where are all the FIXES for XXXX BUGS????

2000-04-10 Thread Andrew Post
Often the bug fixes end up in Cooker, not on the updates page. You're fairly safe with Cooker rpms if the version number only differs by the rpm build number (i.e. 2.2-14 vs. 2.2-15). I agree that Mandrake needs to put more effort into maintaining the updates page. The bug fixes are usually in

Re: [expert] Wine Is Not an Emulator

2000-04-10 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, you wrote: Who cares if WINE is an emulator or not. I run Linux to get away from those crappy Winblows apps that MicroSnot shoves at ya with all there bugs. Why would I want to go backwards. 'Cause there's a few DARN nice programs that are ONLY available under Windoze

Re: [expert] Can't Break X Autostart

2000-04-10 Thread Stephen F. Bosch
"Brian T. Schellenberger" wrote: Actually, we've *already* solved his problem in a practical sense. He's got his system operating as he wants it. He's just indulging us in trying to solve the mystery of why it was acting oddly in the first place, and a re-install won't accomplish *that*!

Re: [expert] Wine Is Not an Emulator

2000-04-10 Thread Pj
LOL!! I'm sorry but I just can't imagine a real windblows program that's stable. I've found four in six years that I consider reliable. I think it's kind of a sad epitaph for a OS that coulda, whoulda, shoulda been great, but failed miserably due to ego and greed, imho. Pj John Aldrich wrote:

Re: [expert] kppp prevents other X apps from opening

2000-04-10 Thread Stephen F. Bosch
John Aldrich wrote: On Sun, 09 Apr 2000, you wrote: It's a feature, not a critical function. If you use an application that relies on reverse DNS lookups (some IP applications do), then the reverse lookup will fail if your hostname doesn't match the real FQDN. If you have a dialup

Re: [expert] Where are all the FIXES for XXXX BUGS????

2000-04-10 Thread Stephen F. Bosch
Alen Salamun wrote: I have never seen a single "Update" for some critical bugs like: - g++ won't compile (includes not found) Is this happening in 7? It doesn't in 6.1. - kernel won't compile if make mrproper not issued before - uucp has wrong privileges on /var/log... - fetchmail is

Re: [expert] How to quit getting mail

2000-04-10 Thread vern
You can still turn it on and off from the website I'm back on from being off for almost a week. Vern On Sun, 09 Apr 2000, you wrote: Lee Binkley wrote: How do you get off this mailing list.. please advise. How did you get on this mailing list? -Stephen-

[expert] Fine tuning my PPP?

2000-04-10 Thread vern
Hello All! On modifying my options on the PPP service to work with my raggedy old 24K intermittent phone lines. I've set my MTU, and MRU to 296 to minimize the packet fragmentation. (I hope) I ran across the "noipx" command an wondered what "IPX" stood for, do I need it? And why should I care??

[expert] cron and rmmod?

2000-04-10 Thread vern
On looking at my logs I wondered is it absolutely necessary to have cron run rmmod -as every ten minutes? I have a lot of strange hard drive activity about two minutes after I boot up. It's like something is checking out the file system or something. But there is no entry in any log that I can

Re: [expert] Several Problems

2000-04-10 Thread Pj
Phoebe modems and a list of distributors: http://www.phoebemicro.com/ PJ

Re: [expert] What is going on with BUG tracking??

2000-04-10 Thread Stephen F. Bosch
Alen Salamun wrote: Hi! I have submited over a dozen of bugs, THAT ARE NOT IN BUG ARCHIVE YET and got no replay, and bugs are not added! What is going on on this field?? That's because they were evaluated and found not to be bugs. You are attributing configuration errors to bugs. I

Re: [expert] Several Problems

2000-04-10 Thread John Connell
Next thing is, is there a site or something where I can order this? The local computer dealer adds heafty charges on ordering, let alone his personal markup Phoebe Microsystems external modem with the TI chipset is model # CMV1456VQE-XV90. You can order this by calling Hi-Tech USA and ask

Re: [expert] Where are all the FIXES for XXXX BUGS????

2000-04-10 Thread Alen Salamun
John Aldrich wrote: Which version of Mandrake do you have? They do not appear to put out updates for older versions (i.e. 6.0, 6.1/6.5) Hi! I am using 7.0! And ofcourse, I would think they'll support the newest version... Hmmm...Maybe the lack people doing it... Bye, Alen --

Re: [expert] LILO IDE CD-Writer

2000-04-10 Thread Lane Lester
Larry Sword said: I suppose it doesn't hurt to ask: You have set the jumper switches on the cd-rom and zip drive to the correct master and slave configuration? It sure doesn't hurt me! g Yes, both the BIOS and Win98 recognize the drives correctly. -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County,

Re: [expert] time/date (OT)

2000-04-10 Thread Leopold Palomo
After all of this information I only want to put a URL that put useful information an a list of time server than can help for this proposes http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/ Leo begin:vcard n:Palomo;Leopold x-mozilla-html:TRUE adr:;;Catalonia version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL

Re: [expert] LILO IDE CD-Writer

2000-04-10 Thread Lane Lester
John Aldrich said: Actually, I included =only= the cd-writer (hdc) in lilo.conf. That's just one of the strange things about the unspecified zip (hdd) being "captured" by the ide-scsi thing. Probably because the Zip will work with SCSI emulation just as well as the CDR. You might

[expert] reverse DNS

2000-04-10 Thread Pj
Regarding reverse DNS: I've noticed that some SPAM messages with bogux names and addresses are using reverse numbers in the message headers. the sequence is fake, but the numbers are real. If anyone understands how this bogus stuff gets thru I'd like to know. You can post me privately if you

Re: [expert] Netscape from KDE

2000-04-10 Thread Icebreaker
This might work better: This is the code, rename it to your script name and make it accessable (backup your old one) Also, make sure the path to perl is correct. To see type: 'which perl' | \/ #!/usr/bin/perl -w ### # perl script to start netscape ### # this may need quotes around the path,

Re: [expert] Office Suite for Linux

2000-04-10 Thread Sheldon Lee-Wen
Well, now that Adobe owns it, the UI might improve -- they're on version 6, is that what you have installed? Whatever version there is for linux. I think it's 5.5.6 beta 2. Anyhow, for some reason yesterday it stopped working. My luck eh. Sheldon.

[expert] Sparc/Ultra kernel fails with kernel panic at boot

2000-04-10 Thread Leif Sawyer
i used elftoaout and net'booted the kernel. It's still failing in the same area of the kernel, which is interesting... esp0: IRQ3,7e0 SCSI ID 7 Clk 40Mhz CCF=8 TOut 167 NCR53C9XF (espfast) IRQ: Trying to share non-PCI bucket Kernel panic: Cannot acquire ESP irq line Press L1-A to return to

Re: [expert] Where are all the FIXES for XXXX BUGS????

2000-04-10 Thread Pj
Be patient. This list does have developers who do listen. One of them might even talk to you privately to address your concerns. Mandrake rocks as you will find out in due time. Pj Alen Salamun wrote: Hi! I have never seen a single "Update" for some critical bugs like: - g++ won't

[expert] KDE RPM dependencies

2000-04-10 Thread Charles Curley
Arrgh. I have installed a minimal installation of KDE, with the idea that if I need something I can just install it. This isn't working because the dependcies don't seem to be enforced. Case in point: I decided to rey the KDE RPM manager, so I installed it. No problem, except that when I go to

[expert] Encrypt utility missing....

2000-04-10 Thread Russell \Elik\ Rademacher
Hey Guys guess what. Seems that the file utilty, encrypt is missing from the distro. If it is not, where is that file located at? For I cannot for life of me locate that utility which I needed for my script for the adduser. So.. I hope you can locate it and point me to the

Re: [expert] Office Suite for Linux

2000-04-10 Thread Ron Stodden
"Brian T. Schellenberger" wrote: I don't think so. I've been in the computer field professionally for 19 years, and I have never heard this distinction raised. One can always learn. It is a useful distinction, but not well-known. Re your professional 19 years, mine are 37. --

Re: [expert] Where are all the FIXES for XXXX BUGS????

2000-04-10 Thread Nitin Raja Bhatia
Whats with g++'s location?? shouldn't it be /usr/lib/libg++.so.* instead of /usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib/libg++.so.* update me if I am wrong. Cheers, Raja On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, Pj wrote: Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 15:41:14 -0500 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Pj [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL

Re: [expert] Office Suite for Linux

2000-04-10 Thread Stephen F. Bosch
Sheldon Lee-Wen wrote: Whatever version there is for linux. I think it's 5.5.6 beta 2. Anyhow, for some reason yesterday it stopped working. My luck eh. It heard you complain about the UI. Serves you right. *grin* -Stephen-

RE: [expert] Can't Break X Autostart

2000-04-10 Thread Lane Lester
Brian T. Schellenberger said: Also, w/r/t to your previous comment on the same topic, he pasted in a big of his init script. He seems to start at runlevel 3 and then get mysteriously switched to runlevel 5. Nonetheless, pasting in his entire /etc/inittab and /etc/lilo.conf files is

Re: [expert] Can't Break X Autostart

2000-04-10 Thread Lane Lester
Brian T. Schellenberger said: I didn't mean rc.local; I meant /etc/rc.d/init.d That directory holds the following: anacron* gpm* linuxconf-setup@ postfix* usb* apmd*halt* lpd* postgresql* vmware* atd* inet* mandrake_everytime*

Re: [expert] Office Suite for Linux

2000-04-10 Thread Lane Lester
I'm very interested in the Subject of this thread and a bit disappointed that it has wandered afield into the nature of WINE. I installed Corel WordPerfect Office 2000 for Linux today, and it looks great. I'm sure I'll find shortcomings, but this is a great package for $88. (TigerDirect $108-$20

[expert] Dial on demand

2000-04-10 Thread Richard Bonebrake
It seems to me that I read something the other day about a module or something to setup dial on demand for a ppp firewall/router. Is there such a thing or am I just dreaming?

Re: [expert] Netscape from KDE

2000-04-10 Thread Brian T. Schellenberger
John Aldrich wrote: On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, you wrote: I have a very simple "browse" command, like this: #! /bin/csh -f cd /home/bts/xfer /usr/bin/netscape $* Ok. I'll bite. Why the shell script? Why not just tell Netscape to execute directly and then put the

Re: [expert] Netscape from KDE

2000-04-10 Thread Brian T. Schellenberger
I know perl, but your script isn't equivalent; it doesn't reset the working directory, which is the whole point of the script. While I write lots of things in perl (I even wrote a maze-generation program in perl!), I don't actually know how to get it to change the working directory in-line for

Re: [expert] Wine Is Not an Emulator

2000-04-10 Thread Brian T. Schellenberger
The reason that *anybody* would care ('cause I'd imagine that by the end of the thread a lot of people were wondering the same thing) is because the original post was discussing the speed of execution. An emulator is inherently slow; an API is not. However, if you want to run no Windows

Re: [expert] failed to stat /net

2000-04-10 Thread Tom Berkley
You may just want to visit the following website and get version 6.0 in rpm format: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/aladdin/get601.html I think that you will find that 6.0 has what you want and it works. Tom Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SWS wrote: What is this telling me [root@Mrroboto brian]#

Re: [expert] KDE RPM dependencies

2000-04-10 Thread Tom Berkley
Interesting. I have a complete kde install and there is no dpkg file to be found anywhere on my system. I also do not understand what you mean when you say that you installed a minimal installation. Tom PS Hint ( different from an insult): Most problems with linux are operator related problems.

Re: [expert] Encrypt utility missing....

2000-04-10 Thread Tom Berkley
There is no executable encrypt on my system but it adds users without any problem. If you want to find something use the locate command (ie locate encrypt). If locate barfs, run updatedb first. Then locate will find anything on your system in a very few seconds. Tom Russell \"Elik\" Rademacher

Re: [expert] Dial on demand

2000-04-10 Thread Eugene C. Zesch
Richard Bonebrake wrote: It seems to me that I read something the other day about a module or something to setup dial on demand for a ppp firewall/router. Is there such a thing or am I just dreaming? Yes, you can put a demand option in /etc/ppp/options, along with anidle xxx option to

Re: [expert] Encrypt utility missing....

2000-04-10 Thread Icebreaker
Are you trying to compile something? Encrypt must be included with the system, or it wouldn't work. The passwd utility depends on this. If you're trying to compile, make sure you are adding the call for the encrypt library. It must be explicitly called, consult your How-To's and/or compiler

Re: [expert] Office Suite for Linux

2000-04-10 Thread Brian T. Schellenberger
Well, I would argue that if it is not well-known, it is by definition not useful. Language is useful only if shared and, as my posting demonstrated, this distinction is simply not being observed in the real world. My guess: This is a distinction that was once observed but has fallen out of

Re: [expert] Netscape from KDE

2000-04-10 Thread Icebreaker
ok, to switch the working directory back, you can do one of three things 1st system(cd [dir]); 2nd chdir (dirname) for this one, you may need to set the umask. remember with umask, you are turning OFF bits, so set it reverse of what you would chmod 3rd chroot (dirname) this one

RE: [expert] Dial on demand

2000-04-10 Thread Russ Johnson
You're probably thinking of diald. However, diald is no longer needed. Put "ondemand" in your ppp "options" file, and ppp will dial on demand. Read the pppd man page for specifics. You may also want to look at persist and I think it's "idle". Russ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

Re: [expert] Dial on demand

2000-04-10 Thread Wang Jian
Your dreaming has been reality for quite a while :-) I currently use diald and it works great. Tuesday, April 11, 2000, 9:35:25 AM, you wrote: RB It seems to me that I read something the other day about a module or RB something to setup dial on demand for a ppp firewall/router. Is there RB

Re: [expert] Office Suite for Linux

2000-04-10 Thread Pj
As a Linux newbie I think it's very important to understand the differences between A nd B for instance as it relates to accomplishing a task. Using the correct terminology helps to get us there. I've lived in different parts of the US. The one thing I notice is that a common item like a

Re: [expert] Encrypt utility missing....

2000-04-10 Thread Jean-Louis Debert
Russell \"Elik\" Rademacher wrote: Hey Guys guess what. Seems that the file utilty, encrypt is missing from the distro. If it is not, where is that file located at? For I cannot for life of me locate that utility which I needed for my script for the adduser. Are you sure